The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s1.33

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Alavi—Airwa, an ancient Buddhist town, the A-le of Fa Hian who travelled in India from A.D. 399 to 413, twenty-seven miles north-east of Itwah. Alavi has been identified by General Cunningham and Dr. Hoernle with Newal or Nawal—the Navadevakula of Hiuen Tsiang, 19 miles south-east of Kanouj (Arch. S. Rep., I, 293; XI, 49; Uvāsaga-dasāo, app., p. 53). It was situated on the Ganges. According to Dr. Kern it was situated between Kośala and Magadha; it contained a monastery called Aggalava-chetiya (MIB., p. 37 n.). It is the Ālabhi of the Jainas, from which Mahāvīra made his missionary peregrinations (Rhys Davids' Vinaya Texts, Chullavagga, Vangīsa or Nigrodha Kappa Sutta, Pt. vi, ch. 17; Sutta Nipāta, Ālavaka Sutta in the Sacred Books of the East, vol. X). It is the Ālambhika of the Kalpasūtra (Stevenson's Kalpasūtra, p. 91). Buddha passed his sixteenth vassa (Varsha) at this place. For the places where Buddha passed his different years after attaining Buddhahood, see JASB., 1838, p. 720.